Ronnie Cummins
Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consumers Association and its Mexico affiliate, Via Organica.
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Views Wednesday, January 01, 2020 2020 Vision: A New Year’s Regeneration Beyond the media smog, the 24/7 fixation on the Trump cesspool and the endless distractions of the holiday season, I probably don't have to remind you that the end of the modern era is at hand. As most of us realize, even as we repress this thought in order to maintain our sanity, we are fast... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 16, 2019 'We Need Total System Change': A Letter from Santiago, Chile Defying the machinations of discredited President Sebastian Pinera—who abruptly cancelled the Global Climate Summit in Santiago, Chile in reaction to the nationwide grassroots uprising that erupted here on October 18—an intrepid band of North and South American farmers, food activists and climate... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 29, 2019 Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal is a Game-Changer for Food and Farming The scope of the challenge ahead of us shares similarities with the crisis faced by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940s. Battling a world war on two fronts—both in the East and the West—the United States came together, and within three short years restructured the entire economy in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 28, 2019 The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This great awakening has arrived just in time, given the record-breaking temperatures, violent weather, crop... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 28, 2019 New Study Confirms: Degenerative Food & Farming System Poses Mortal Threat A new study calling for a “radical rethink” of the relationship between policymakers and corporations reinforces what Organic Consumers Association and other public interest groups have been saying for years: Our triple global health crises of deteriorating public health, world hunger and global... Read more |
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Views Monday, January 14, 2019 A Call for the Food Movement to Get Behind the Green New Deal “The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan… Half measures will not work… The time for slow and incremental efforts has long past [sic].” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then-candidate for the U.S. House of... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 05, 2018 Degeneration Nation 2018: The Darkest Hour Welcome to Degeneration Nation 2018. The frightening truth is that our “profit-at-any-cost” economy and global empire, run by and for the one percent and multi-national corporations, aided and abetted by an out-of-control Congress and White House, is threatening our very survival. Our system of... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 05, 2018 Let's Make 2018 the Year We Rise Up and Regenerate! “...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.” – Wendell Berry, “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays” It was a soil scientist who... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 05, 2017 How Regenerative Food and Farming Can Reverse Rural Poverty and Forced Migration in the Americas One of the most politically charged debates today, especially in the U.S. and Europe, is the so-called “immigration crisis.” There are approximately 250 million (3 percent of the world’s 7.6 billion people) migrants in the world today. About 20 percent, or 47 million of those, live in the U.S... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 24, 2017 Global Warming ‘Costing Taxpayers Billions.’ Here’s How to Fix It. Another report sounding the alarm about climate change. Another missed opportunity to talk about the most promising solution: regenerative agriculture. The New York Times yesterday cited a new report by the notoriously conservative Government Accountability Office (GAO), which said “climate change... Read more |